I
do not have any degree or certification to prove my linguistic
abilities – simply because I discovered my talents too late, after
I would have completed my engineering and business studies. I love
languages, I find learning them easy and I love applying my skills.

I
am not a native speaker of the English language (I
was born in Poland) but
I have speaking English almost every day for the last twenty odd
years, I write stories and film screenplays in English. I
am an Irish citizen and I have been living in Ireland (with short
periods in other countries since 1998).

Also,
I
am a Hungarian engineer - I studied in Budapest at the Technical
University (IT/Electrical
Engineering Faculty,
1990 - 1997),
I got my masters there and a state exam in Hungarian. I am totally
fluent in Hungarian (my
studies took place through the medium of
this
language).

I
have an MBA from Oxford Brookes, which
I achieved in Ireland, and
I have worked in world-class IT businesses and organisations such
Nokia/American Power Conversion/Dell/GE and then Barcelona
Supercomputing Centre and ETP4HPC. I enclose my 'business' CV – in
order to provide an evidence of my technical and business acumen as
well as the exposure I have accumulated over the years.

My
favourite language pair is HU->EN
and I
have done a fair amount such
translation in technical areas, with
an excellent result.
I
like working in the HU->PL, EN->PL (and PL->EN) pairs, too.

My
English is perfect (although, as I said I was not born in an
English-speaking country) and I have a unique talent for languages -
I am fluent in 7, I write stories in 4. On top of it, I have my texts
checked by a native speaker (but there is barely anything to be
corrected).

My
experience includes:

PL->HU
and HU->PL simultaneous interpreting at business meetings

PL->HU
and HU->PL simultaneous interpreting for the prison guards
associations of Poland and Hungary

Running
a small translation/interpreting business in Ireland – documents,
meetings, etc.

PL->EN
and EN->PL interpreting for the Irish Court Service (during court proceedings)

PL/HU->EN
and EN->PL/HU
interpreting
for hospitals
in Ireland

HU->EN,
HU->PL – various smaller documents (event, marketing related)

HU->EN
– IT manuals for the Hungarian Health System (e-referrals)